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  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:   ... limits here. For example Massachusetts has some pretty lame rules about ... there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  MIT than at many other places for this very important reason: given the ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye! ... P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired ... to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for mirchi, an bollywood/fusion dance group who performed at south asian ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning ... a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  /no record - I don't think I've crammed for any class at MIT as hard as I did ... Before You Graduate" for her graduating class. That was right when I ... of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... wasn't a good deal for me at the time. You get lab experience, you apply ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more than we'd like. But when you find that true fit, that perfect place for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time. It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... I was at MIT, I cheered for four years and was captain for one; this ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at ... ’ll move to Germany for a one-year Fulbright at the Max Planck Institute for ... not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... 's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  about physical distance, or at least not for me. Brook E. ‘18 and I, in ... Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , protest, at the local and national level. They've done all these things for ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... Representative at the station. I buy another one-day pass. CJ: Press F for Alan ... : Spoilers for the rest of this post. At Mattapan, we got off of the trolley we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  don't formally have the prerequisites for. Go look at the curriculum ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer ... like math and science."   This definitely hits home for me. At MIT ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... 'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007